Trailer Parks Coming to Your Neighborhood

[Anonymous]

Virginia Residents beware there is an unhinged proposal by one of our state legislative reps (David Reid, district 28 in Loudoun County) to override local zoning and allow high density trailer parks by-right throughout Virginia anywhere that has access to public sewer. If this bill passes your neighborhood will open season for developers to build trailer parks up to 8.7 units per acre. There is another state representative (Shelly Simonds, District 70) that wants to eliminate parking minimums statewide to “let the market decide” whether the elderly, disabled, and parents with small children should have equal access to housing. Eliminating parking minimums everywhere is basically discrimination against people with mobility issues as it effectively them from being able to live in the housing development. I have an infant and this would be disastrous for new parents. People need to fight tooth and nail to kills these bills. Call your state senators and tell them you are against this nonsense. It does not stop with this bill, the development lobby uses a piecemeal approach to gradually pass bills in each state that overtime will eliminate zoning altogether. This year they will require 8.7 units per acre, next year they will eliminate single family zoning and require quadplex zoning by right, which increases the minimum density everywhere to 34.8 units per acre. The year after that they will override local control by allowing churches to ignore zoning rules for low income housing and allow halfway houses by-right in residential neighborhoods. The end result is that your quaint single family neighborhood neighborhood will be ruined by a developer that buys your neighbors house to build a 34 unit drug rehab center. Good luck Virginia, I hope everyone is looking forward to high density trailer parks with no parking and drug rehab centers next to their house . It will provide easy access and more customers for the new Tysons Corner Casino that Scott Surovell wants to force Fairfax County to approve.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Virginia Residents beware there is an unhinged proposal by one of our state legislative reps (David Reid, district 28 in Loudoun County) to override local zoning and allow high density trailer parks by-right throughout Virginia anywhere that has access to public sewer. If this bill passes your neighborhood will open season for developers to build trailer parks up to 8.7 units per acre. There is another state representative (Shelly Simonds, District 70) that wants to eliminate parking minimums statewide to “let the market decide” whether the elderly, disabled, and parents with small children should have equal access to housing. Eliminating parking minimums everywhere is basically discrimination against people with mobility issues as it effectively them from being able to live in the housing development. I have an infant and this would be disastrous for new parents. People need to fight tooth and nail to kills these bills. Call your state senators and tell them you are against this nonsense. It does not stop with this bill, the development lobby uses a piecemeal approach to gradually pass bills in each state that overtime will eliminate zoning altogether. This year they will require 8.7 units per acre, next year they will eliminate single family zoning and require quadplex zoning by right, which increases the minimum density everywhere to 34.8 units per acre. The year after that they will override local control by allowing churches to ignore zoning rules for low income housing and allow halfway houses by-right in residential neighborhoods. The end result is that your quaint single family neighborhood neighborhood will be ruined by a developer that buys your neighbors house to build a 34 unit drug rehab center. Good luck Virginia, I hope everyone is looking forward to high density trailer parks with no parking and drug rehab centers next to their house . It will provide easy access and more customers for the new Tysons Corner Casino that Scott Surovell wants to force Fairfax County to approve.

https://cardinalnews.org/2025/12/18/reid-vacos-silence-on-housing-leaves-the-general-assembly-no-choice-but-to-act/
https://www.wtkr.com/news/in-the-community/newport-news/va-lawmaker-proposes-ban-on-mandatory-parking-requirements-for-new-developments

[Anonymous]

I don’t have an issue with trailer parks. I’d rather them than apartments.

[Anonymous]

New parents? Yawn

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t have an issue with trailer parks. I’d rather them than apartments.

Or people sleeping in tents . . .

[Anonymous]

Why is this disastrous for new parents? Trailers are very nice and affordable for new parents. Have you ever been in one?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is this disastrous for new parents? Trailers are very nice and affordable for new parents. Have you ever been in one?

Not OP. But yes, I have. And they fall apart quite quickly. They are not "nice."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don’t have an issue with trailer parks. I’d rather them than apartments.

It will be both. They will override local zoning to allow apartment buildings by-right on these lots after they make 5,000 sq ft the minimum lot size. A six story single stair apartment building could easily include 24 units on a 5,000 sq ft lot. The minimum lot size changes in combination with zoning changes to allow single stair apartment buildings will make it feasible to build apartment complexes with a density in excess of 100+ units per acre in single family neighborhoods. It will not stop with this proposal, its a long-term strategy to eliminate local control with death by a thousand cuts. California has now passed a law to override local zoning and allow developments in excess of 100 units per acre in some parts of the state.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is this disastrous for new parents? Trailers are very nice and affordable for new parents. Have you ever been in one?

Not OP. But yes, I have. And they fall apart quite quickly. They are not "nice."

OP here my parents grew up a trailer park and they would not want one their neighborhood. You guys on DCUM are clueless about the crime and social problems that they will bring to your community. People that are move out of trailer parks do everything they can do avoid being near them ever again in their life.

[Anonymous]

Most of the land in Fairfax County is too expensive for trailer parks. Who cares if they add trailer parks in Prince William or places like that

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is this disastrous for new parents? Trailers are very nice and affordable for new parents. Have you ever been in one?

Not OP. But yes, I have. And they fall apart quite quickly. They are not "nice."

OP here my parents grew up a trailer park and they would not want one their neighborhood. You guys on DCUM are clueless about the crime and social problems that they will bring to your community. People that are move out of trailer parks do everything they can do avoid being near them ever again in their life.

Yeah, I think these "trailers are nice!" people have never been anywhere near an actual trailer park.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is this disastrous for new parents? Trailers are very nice and affordable for new parents. Have you ever been in one?

Not OP. But yes, I have. And they fall apart quite quickly. They are not "nice."

OP here my parents grew up a trailer park and they would not want one their neighborhood. You guys on DCUM are clueless about the crime and social problems that they will bring to your community. People that are move out of trailer parks do everything they can do avoid being near them ever again in their life.

No, not clueless. I've lived in a trailer park and have friends and family who still do. They're people, not "crime and social problems," and I would not mind having one near me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most of the land in Fairfax County is too expensive for trailer parks. Who cares if they add trailer parks in Prince William or places like that

Those of us in Prince William ...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most of the land in Fairfax County is too expensive for trailer parks. Who cares if they add trailer parks in Prince William or places like that

They will do both. Apartment buildings by-right on 5,000 sq ft lots will come soon after that. Then you will get high density slums financed by LIHTC next door even if the numbers don't pencil out for trailer parks in your neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is this disastrous for new parents? Trailers are very nice and affordable for new parents. Have you ever been in one?

Not OP. But yes, I have. And they fall apart quite quickly. They are not "nice."

They fall apart in wind storms and tornados.